By mid-morning the heat on the airport tarmac was already as intense as the growing tension over the planned asylum seeker swap with Malaysia.
And the Federal Government plane VH-VHD was going nowhere.
The gleaming airbus was to have flown out yesterday morning with the first asylum seekers to be removed to Kuala Lumpur and with a special squad of Australian Federal Police.
And the Federal Government plane VH-VHD was going nowhere.
The gleaming airbus was to have flown out yesterday morning with the first asylum seekers to be removed to Kuala Lumpur and with a special squad of Australian Federal Police.